Usage: President Obama’s decision to send 34,000 more troops into Afghanistan will prove to be a Brobdingnagian calamity.
Brobdingnagian brob-ding-NAG-ee-uhn , adjective; 1. Of extraordinary size; gigantic; enormous. Origin: Brobdingnagian is from Brobdingnag, a country of giants in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.
Word of the Day | Wednesday, November 25, 2009 | Dictionary.com.
Researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst asked in a new study: What if the government took some of the money going toward the military and spent it instead on jobs in other sectors?
Commissioned by the Institute for Policy Studies and Women’s Action for New Directions, the report shows that the federal government could generate thousands more jobs, both directly and indirectly, by focusing spending on health care, education, or clean energy rather than on defense.
via Foreign Policy In Focus | The Secret About Jobs Military Contractors Don’t Want You to Know.
Estimated number of firebomb-wielding live bats that the U.S. considered dropping on Japan in early 1944: 1,000,000
